fantom

English

Adjective

fantom (not comparable)

1. Archaic form of phantom.

Noun

fantom (plural fantoms)

1. Archaic form of phantom.

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Danish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -oːˀm

Noun

fantom n (singular definite fantomet, plural indefinite fantomer)

1. phantom

See also

• Fantomet

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Ladin

Noun

fantom

1. ghost

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• fantesme, fantum, fantome, fantam, fanteme, fantosme, fantoum, fantem, fantym, fantime

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French fantosme, from Latin phantasma, from Ancient Greek φάντασμα (phántasma).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fanˈtɔːm/, /ˈfantɔm/, /ˈfantum/, /ˈfantəm/, /fanˈtɛːm/

Noun

fantom (plural fantoms)

1. Something that is ephemeral or transient; worldly wealth (as opposed to spiritual gains).
2. An experience or happening that is non-real or phantasmic; something which is misleading or a phantom.
3. A lie or misconception; something which is untrue or divorced from reality.
4. (rare) Deceitfulness or fraudulence; the practice or art of conniving to trick.
5. (rare, medicine) A hallucination or state of deliriousness brought on by illness.

Descendants

• English: phantom
• Scots: phanton

References

• “fantō̆m, -um, -em n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-1-3.

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

fantom n (definite singular fantomet, indefinite plural fantom or fantomer, definite plural fantoma or fantomene)

1. phantom

See also

• Fantomet

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

fantom n (definite singular fantomet, indefinite plural fantom, definite plural fantoma)

1. a phantom

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Romansch

Etymology

Borrowed from German Phantom.

Noun

fantom m (plural fantoms)

1. phantom

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fǎntoːm/
• Hyphenation: fan‧tom

Noun

fàntōm m (Cyrillic spelling фа̀нто̄м)

1. phantom

Declension

Declension of fantom

	singular	plural
nominative	fàntōm	fantomi
genitive	fantóma	fantoma
dative	fantomu	fantomima
accusative	fantoma	fantome
vocative	fantome	fantomi
locative	fantomu	fantomima
instrumental	fantomom	fantomima

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Swedish

Alternative forms

• phantom (archaic)

Noun

fantom c

1. phantom

Declension

Declension of fantom
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	fantom	fantomen	fantomer	fantomerna
Genitive	fantoms	fantomens	fantomers	fantomernas